Larger body size leads to greater female beluga whale ovarian reproductive activity at the southern periphery of their range

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Ferguson, Steven H., Yurkowski, David J., Hudson, Justine M., Edkins, Tera, Willing, Cornelia, Watt, Cortney A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
• Subjects: Research Articles; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Ora; Baffin; Beluga; Beluga whale; Beluga*; Delphinapterus leucas
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8668808/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34938510; https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8367

Identification of phenotypic characteristics in reproductively successful individuals provides important insights into the evolutionary processes that cause range shifts due to environmental change. Female beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) from the Baffin Bay region (BB) of the Canadian Arctic i...